EMEA editor Neil Ramsden brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week.

Last week, Undercurrent News had six reporters at the Global Seafood Market Conference, held annually in the US in January and organized by the National Fisheries Institute. You can catch up on all our live coverage in one place, here. While in California, our US team launched our new podcast, Catch the Current. You can find out more about that here.

The man who became a household name as an advocate for fish harvesters in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has a new gig in the processing sector. Ryan Cleary has quietly called it a day with the Fisheries Protective Cooperative and is now an inshore director with St. Mary's Bay Fisheries.

Also in NL, a months-long simmering dispute between Royal Greenland subsidiary Quin-Sea and a group that represents seafood processors boiled over last week. Quin-Sea is withdrawing its members in the Association of Seafood Producers, effective immediately, the company stated.

Catching may have only just started for Russian and US pollock vessels in 2025, but some A-season deals are already being settled. Early A season 2025 deals for US sea- and land-frozen pin-bone out pollock fillet blocks are being agreed with an uplift on last year, with some sellers anticipating further increases and in no rush to close, sources told Undercurrent.

And nearly 2 million Copper River sockeye salmon are projected for this season's commercial harvest in the US state of Alaska, fishery managers announced Thursday.

For the rest of last week's most-read stories, see the headlines below.

• Atlantic Capes deal makes Northern Wind one of world's three scallop titans
• Los Angeles RAS shrimp producer shuts down farm, mulls next move
• Kodiak Tanner crab deal goes through with processor paying premium price
• US shellfish M&A: Direct Source ups foodservice sales after deal for Amende & Schultz
• ASC decision about Canadian lobster plant depends on season outlook
• US salmon RAS farmer Local Coho shuts down after 6-year effort
• McIntosh forecasts 2025 global shrimp output to drop below 5m metric tons, black tiger to rise again
• Another slow Atlantic scallop landings week contributes to 'significant turmoil' in US market
• Ecuador's Omarsa eyes downstream shrimp M&A in Europe, hopes to benefit from Venezuela's Lamar takeover
• Investigation underway after fatality at Mowi's Atlantic Canada operations